Vehicle-axle cutter



(ModeL) A. N.'RUITER.

VEHICLE AXLE GUTTER. No. 299,854. V Patented June. 3, 1884.

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NlTE STAES AUSTIN N. RUITER, OF ABEROORN, QUEBEC, CANADA, ASSIGNOR TO ORION NELSON ELKINS, OF NORTH TROY, VERMONT.

VEHICLE-AXLE CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 299,854, dated June 3, 1884.

Application filed July 17, 1883. (Model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUSTIN N. RUITER, of Abercorn, in the Province of Quebec and Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Vehicle-Axle Outters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to apparatus or n1achines for cutting carriage or wagon axles.

Heretofore in cutting worn carriage-axles it has been customary to turn the machine around the axle while cutting it, to shorten the arm between the collar of the axle and its outer-threaded end portion, and afterward to use an ordinary screw-plate to extend the thread, and subsequently to out off, by a file or cold chisel, or both, the surplus metal from the axle. This not only involves a series of operations attended with much difficulty, time, and labor, but requires several separate appliances to perform the work, and, owing to the fact that the under side of the axle is always the most worn, a machine or apparatus which turns about a worn axle that presents an uneven surface must necessarily make a very irregular out.

My invention consists in a machine, and in certain combinations making up the same, which, instead of revolving as an entirety about the axle, is secured thereon, and which combines in the one instrument both an axlecutter and a thread-cutter, capable of cutting either a right or left hand thread, thus doing away with the difficulties and objections hereinbefore referred to.-

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,

' in which similar letters of reference indicate b, the aperture 0 in which extends through the whole body part and is of sufficient capacity to receive freely within it the largest carriageaxle the apparatus is designed to operate upon. The apparatus is slipped, by its hollow body A and portion b, over the axle, and is secured thereon by a split sleeve or bent plate, B, provided with a handle, I), introduced within the aperture 0, and by a set-screw, (1, said plate bearing on top of the axle, and the screw 01 being brought in contact with the under or worn side of it, thus allowing the dies or. cutters, which are carried by a cutter-head, C, that rotates around the stationary neck portion 2), secured on the axle, to revolve around the axlearm at a right angle and equidistant from the center of it.

The sleeve 13 is of such a size that when surrounding the smallest-sized axles to which it is adapted a slot will be left between its split sides for the passage of the binding-screw. If larger-sized axles are to be operated upon, the sleeve B will be expanded accordingly, leaving .a wider slot for the passage of said binding-screw, thus rendering the sleeve adapted to be applied to different-sized axles. By the cutter-head thus having a fixed cylindrical bearing in concentric position with the axle arm, that irregularity of out which attaches. to a'machine that bodily turns around a worn axle is avoided, and a regular cut is obtained, no matter how much the axle or arm thereof may be reduced by wear on its under side.

The cutter-head O is not only fitted so as to be capable of being rotated around the portion 1) of the fixed body part by means of a handlever D, but also of being longitudinally slid thereon by a feed-lever, E, having its fulcrum at 0 upon an arm, F, on the body A, and having one of its ends made to enter an annular groove, f, in the cutter-head O, and its other end arranged to rest against a screw or adjustable stop, 9, in the arm F, to limit the out ward movement of the cutter-head, which, by reason of the groove f, may continue its rotary motion while being moved up in or out on the fixed tubular portion 1). The axle being secured by and arranged within the apparatus, as described, a chisel or cutter, G, on the outer end of the cutter-head G is brought in contact with the end of the arm of the axle to be shortened, by means of an adjustable screw, h, and the feed-lever E, and the cutter-head rotated by the hand-lever D, to make the necessary reductionof the axle. The new or extended screw-thread is then cut upon the axle by-means of a cutter, H, on the cutter-head 0, adjustable by a screw, '17, and by a tracer, I, adjusted to follow in the old or original screwthread, the cutter-head C being rotated as before, and the cutter G being withdrawn from action. This work having been completed, the cutter G is again brought into use to cut off so much or" the end of the axle as is in excess of the length required. I11 this way or by these meansall the necessary operations may be performed in the one apparatus in a simple, quick, and perfect manner.

Instead of using a hand-lever feed, as described, to move the cutter-head along the fixed tubular portion Z), and which will be found better adapted to cutting the axles of wagons that have attached sand-boxes, an automatic feed may be employed.

I am aware that packing-plates surround- I ing an axle and provided with guide-pins have been adjusted by set-screws, and I therefore lay no claim to such construction.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination, with the body A, having neck I) and aperture 0, and the rotary head 0, provided with cutters G H, of a sleeve, B, having a longitudinal slit, and provided with a handle, Z), serving the double purpose of limiting the inward movement of the sleeve and a means for operating the same, and screw (2, passing through the slit of the sleeve and adapted to bear on the axle, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, with the body A and head 0, of the arm Eon said body, the screwstop 9, and the feed-lever E, pivoted on a lateral stud of said arm and projecting into a groove of said head, as shown and described.

AUSTIN N. RUITER.

XVitnesses:

F. H. RAND, II. B. PETTENGILL. 

